Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -33 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 173 395 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.84% 9.12% 11.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.09% 29.32% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 98 180 226
10th Percentile £40,015 £41,732 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,144 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +21.86% -8.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £88,250 £100,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 575 1,347 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.08% 31.12% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 402 767 1,005
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,698 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £86,750 £88,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -40 79 £47,520 -32.11% 92
Oxfordshire +6 50 £65,000 +13.04% 96
Buckinghamshire -8 44 £60,000 +6.67% 45
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.73%) CMS
2 2 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Appian
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.05%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (34.10%) AWS
2 41 (23.70%) Azure
3 31 (17.92%) Power Platform
4 30 (17.34%) GCP
5 26 (15.03%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (14.45%) Serverless
7 20 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.67%) GitHub
10 8 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.05%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.05%) Google Docs
12 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.31%) SaaS
13 4 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) DNS
2 10 (5.78%) Firewall
3 4 (2.31%) Broadband
3 4 (2.31%) DHCP
3 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.31%) Wireless
4 3 (1.73%) HTTP
4 3 (1.73%) InfiniBand
4 3 (1.73%) Internet
5 2 (1.16%) 5G
5 2 (1.16%) FTP
5 2 (1.16%) LAN
5 2 (1.16%) SMTP
5 2 (1.16%) SSH
5 2 (1.16%) VPN
5 2 (1.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.58%) MIMO
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) NGN
6 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.76%) Power BI
2 27 (15.61%) Relational Database
3 25 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.87%) BigQuery
5 19 (10.98%) RDBMS
6 17 (9.83%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.36%) Tableau
8 7 (4.05%) Metadata
9 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.89%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.89%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.73%) MySQL
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.16%) Data Hub
13 2 (1.16%) Looker
13 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (17.34%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.98%) JMeter
2 19 (10.98%) JUnit
2 19 (10.98%) Mockito
3 16 (9.25%) Git
4 9 (5.20%) JIRA
5 6 (3.47%) Selenium
6 5 (2.89%) GitLab
7 4 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.31%) MLflow
7 4 (2.31%) Postman
7 4 (2.31%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.73%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.73%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.58%) Appium
10 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
General
1 53 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.18%) Marketing
3 26 (15.03%) Law
4 25 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.72%) Public Sector
6 17 (9.83%) Finance
7 12 (6.94%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.78%) Retail
9 8 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.89%) Legal
11 4 (2.31%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.73%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.16%) Banking
13 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.16%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.58%) Automotive
14 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (18.50%) Developer
2 25 (14.45%) Architect
3 23 (13.29%) Senior
4 21 (12.14%) Java Developer
5 20 (11.56%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (11.56%) GCP Architect
5 20 (11.56%) Platform Architect
6 18 (10.40%) Analyst
6 18 (10.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (9.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (8.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (8.67%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (4.05%) Author
10 7 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Lead
10 7 (4.05%) Technical Author
11 6 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.76%) REST
2 22 (12.72%) HTML
3 21 (12.14%) JSON
3 21 (12.14%) Spring
3 21 (12.14%) Spring Boot
4 20 (11.56%) Web Services
4 20 (11.56%) XML
5 19 (10.98%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (10.98%) Apache Camel
5 19 (10.98%) Hibernate
5 19 (10.98%) jQuery
5 19 (10.98%) WireMock
6 9 (5.20%) .NET
6 9 (5.20%) SOAP
7 8 (4.62%) React
8 4 (2.31%) Middleware
8 4 (2.31%) pytest
8 4 (2.31%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (1.73%) CSS
9 3 (1.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.05%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.89%) IoT
4 5 (2.89%) Life Science
4 5 (2.89%) SCADA
4 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.31%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.31%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (1.73%) Animation
7 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.16%) Replication
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) FPGA
8 1 (0.58%) LIMS
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.76%) Linux
2 11 (6.36%) Windows
3 10 (5.78%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.21%) Agile
2 50 (28.90%) Analytics
3 41 (23.70%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.81%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (20.81%) Roadmaps
5 33 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (17.92%) Mentoring
8 30 (17.34%) Strategic Roadmap
9 29 (16.76%) Data Science
10 28 (16.18%) SDLC
11 27 (15.61%) Cloud Security
11 27 (15.61%) DevOps
12 25 (14.45%) TDD
13 24 (13.87%) Architectural Design
13 24 (13.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (12.72%) Microservices
14 22 (12.72%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (12.72%) Software Engineering
15 21 (12.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.84%) SQL
2 58 (33.53%) Java
3 39 (22.54%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.03%) Go
5 22 (12.72%) Shell Script
6 20 (11.56%) Bash
7 16 (9.25%) PowerShell
8 14 (8.09%) C#
9 13 (7.51%) C++
10 8 (4.62%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (3.47%) Perl
13 5 (2.89%) C
13 5 (2.89%) PHP
14 4 (2.31%) Fortran
14 4 (2.31%) Ruby
14 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.73%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (21.97%) Degree
2 29 (16.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.94%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.47%) PhD
7 4 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.31%) MCSE
7 4 (2.31%) RHCE
8 3 (1.73%) LPIC
8 3 (1.73%) OSCP
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.58%) GPEN
10 1 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.62%) QA
3 5 (2.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.73%) ECSS
4 3 (1.73%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.58%) GxP
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (21.39%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) vCloud
3 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) GPFS
3 3 (1.73%) Lustre
3 3 (1.73%) NFS
4 2 (1.16%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.56%) Kibana
3 14 (8.09%) Ansible
4 12 (6.94%) Terraform
5 4 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.31%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.31%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.73%) Nmap
7 2 (1.16%) Argo
7 2 (1.16%) Grafana
7 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.58%) Control-M
8 1 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.58%) SCCM
8 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (17.92%) Google
2 20 (11.56%) Dynatrace
3 19 (10.98%) Splunk
4 6 (3.47%) VMware
5 5 (2.89%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (2.89%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.89%) Siemens
6 4 (2.31%) Databricks
6 4 (2.31%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.73%) Talend
8 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.16%) Aruba
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco
8 2 (1.16%) Cognos
8 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.16%) Zoho